Bio Note
Born in 1948, Prof. Fargues obtained his PhD in Sociology at the Sorbonne (1974). He has lectured and researched at the University of Paris I, the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, the Lebanese University in Beirut, the UN Institute for Demographic Research and Training in Yaoundé, the French Centre of Modern Middle Eastern Studies in Beirut, and the Ivorian University in Abidjan. He was appointed Director of CEDEJ (1992-98), the Social and Economic Research Centre in Cairo, and was visiting professor at Harvard (1998-99), and he is currently on leave from INED, the French National Institute for Demographic Studies. As a population scientist and specialist in Middle Eastern issues, since February 2004 he is at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, where he is Scientific Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration. His research interests include migration, population and politics in Muslim countries, family building, demographic methodologies and their application to the MENA. His publications comprise Mediterranean Migration – Report 2005 (EUI), Générations Arabes (Fayard 2000), Christians and Jews under Islam with Youssef Courbage (Tauris 1997), The Economy of the Middle East in a Prospect of Peace (2 vol., Maisonneuve et Larose 1995), The Atlas of the Arab World: Geopolitics and Society with Rafic Boustani (Bordas 1990), Réserves de main-d'oeuvre et rente pétrolière: migrations de travail vers le Golfe (Presses universitaires de Lyon 1982). He has contributed to international refereed journals including Population and Development Review, Population Studies, Population, International Migration Review, Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Reproductive Health Matters, SAIS Review, Maghreb-Machrek, Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes, Esprit and the Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.
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